Monday, July 20, 2015

New Challenge At Aurora Wings

Our new challenge starts today at the Aurora Wings Challenge Blog with the theme of "Anything with Wings". This will be a 2 month long challenge as we are taking a break for the end of summer vacations and back to school preparations so it will run through September 19th. It was tough choosing an image this time because there are sooo many gorgeous ones in the Aurora Wings shops, both Etsy and the Aurora Wings.com Digi Store, that fit this theme. I finally settled on one that I've adored all along, but was a bit intimidated by, called What Dreams May Come. It features Little Elf Kia being carried through the air by a flight of dragonflies. How MAGICAL!

Once I started coloring, I was pleasantly surprised. Kia came together quite nicely, in fact she was a joy to color. The trick is not to print the image too small, (mine is approx 6 1/2 x 6 1/2", yeah, I could have gone a bit smaller, but I be old and my eyesight is failing) and to start with the vines and leaves of the swing since they go right over the top of her curly hair. I almost missed the tip of her little elf ear on the other side of the vine, initially coloring it as a leaf, but that's what colorless blender is for. LOL Here's a closeup. All done with Copics.

The dragonflies are amazing, aren't they? I chose two of my fave colorways for these critters that matched the colors I'd started with on Kia. I've also added Glossy Accents to their eyes and Stardust Stickles to their wings. I thought that a bit of cheesecloth gave some nice texture and reminded me of the pattern in their wings, as well. Both DP's are old K&Co and the blue pattern has some glitter which led me to distress the edges of the paper with the edge of my scissors and Stickle around it too, but not until I'd filled in some of the white space with my dotty background around the images and inking the edges with Distress in Tumbled Glass.

The sentiment was computer generated, cut with a Spellbinders Label 4 and inked with Tumbled Glass Distress after embossing while still in the die. The metal dragonfly was from a set of bug paperclips I got on clearance eons ago at Starbucks. I freed him from the clip, stickled his wings, colored him with Copics and added some gem eyes. I thought the yellow bow helped bring some of the color from the flowers (all Prima) to the top right of the design. That's why I added the second pattern, as well. It needed something to break up all that blue. So aren't I the little chatty one today? Can't help it. I'm pretty proud of myself for not shying away from an image I thought would be too difficult and I'm more than pleased with the results. Also, I've already seen the gorgeous creations by my DT Sisters so be sure to visit the Challenge Blog and prepared to be amazed.

Fantastic work, Donna! Honestly, I think this is the first time I see this image colored by anyone other than myself. LOL It does have intimidating detail ... lots of it, but you totally pulled it off! :D Love the oranges in the dragonflies and flowers to contrast with bright blue dress and ribbons on Kia. It's got that summer fresh feeling with sense of freedom. Love the layers, too. Thank you so much for creating such a gorgeous inspiration for our latest challenge at Aurora Wings!!

This is such a fabulous and dreamy image, Donna! Love the flawless and contrasting coloring you did - just stunning!!Thank you so much for joining us at the Dream Factory with this gorgeous card.Rosi x

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About Me

I've always loved crafting, even as a little girl. My inspiration was my Daddy who was a wonderful artist and made beautiful 3-D Valentines for my teachers in grade school. Although I love all kinds of crafts I haven't had a real focus since abandoning counted cross stitch back in the 80's. Until I got my Cricut in 2008, that is. I've since expanded my horizons and found a new love in coloring both rubber and digi stamps with my Copics. Now I'm a blissfully retired card maker and papercrafter married 42 (!) years to a wonderful guy with two furbabies, Goliath and Jezebel. Everyday I look forward to dreaming up designs and playing in my craft room. I invite you to share in my adventures.